This free minimalist WordPress theme is based off of Upstart Blogger’s WordPress theme “Modicus “. Thus aptly titled “Modicus Remix”. The original Modicus theme may be a tad more versatile (such as a three-column option, which remix does NOT have). So if you plan on wanting another column, or a simpler starting point, I would recommend the original theme. To install Modicus Remix on your own WordPress blog, follow the step-by-step instructions below.

Step One

Step Two

Login to your WordPress administration panel

Click Presentation, and select Modicus Remix as your theme.

If you already have categories, or know what you want your navigation to look like, you can edit the header and footer files to reflect what categories you want to link to. These links need to be manually added in the files through the presentation section of WordPress, once you decide what pages/categories you want to list.

Step Three

To create your archives page, you will need to create a new “Page” in wordpress. Name this page anything you like, most likely ‘Archives’. Make sure you set the template (on the right sidebar) to use the “Archives” template. You will also want to edit the actual Archives.php file from your presentation section of WordPress to fill in or remove your author profile, which has links to the authors articles and a small about me paragraph. This theme will be supported as best I can, but primarily this is an unsupported theme , and you will need to seek your own counsel when trying to use or modify it. The theme is free to use, spread, modify, do whatever you like with. Let me know with a comment if you decide to use the theme, and where I can check it out. Hope it’s enjoyed!

About the Author

A graphic and web designer, and the founder of an eccentric northwest design studio. Now living in Seattle for the past three years, loving the art, music, and culture it has to offer. Fan of coffee, travel, and the occasional slow jam. Believes people should listen to more Bob Marley, and watch less TV.

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Fath — the easiest way seems to be just change the ‘#headerstripe’ property in the style.css file to match the banner you’d like… you lose the stripes, but that may not be a bad thing. The only problem (other than you now have only one banner for all pages) is on the 404 page, where you’ll now have two headers — the new banner plus the 404 banner. You can decide what you’d like to do about that..

More help would be nice — I did like the way each page had a different banner on the site but I think these bits were removed for the public download.

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this is great! however, maybe u could reconsider in your instructions the part overwriting all existing plugins. most might have existing plugins that they would want to continue using and/or they would needing in case they would want to change back to their old theme theme for whatever reason.

I clicked on the Modicus Remix link on Smash Magazine. I like your site even better, Brad! It took me the longest time to realize that this was not another version of Modicus Remix (with which I’m not familiar.) Boy did I feel like an idjut. Did you do this site yourself? It’s phenomenal.

This theme does look nice but as you said, but it is a work in progress indeed! I don’t have a banner showing but worse: my posts appears in the side columns when one continues the lecture away from the home page!

It’s the end of January 2008 and I’m considering updating my current WP blog to use the Modicus Remix theme; can anyone help with a couple of questions?

1 – Any known compatibility issues with WordPress Version 2.3.2?
2 – Is the theme widget enabled? (I can’t see any statement on this)?
3 – What advice would you offer / check’s to be made / work-arounds that I should be aware of before implementing this theme?
4 – Other examples of the theme in use? – I’ve seen the excellent http://drew3000.net/

Another general questions to Brad…. I really like the ‘Featured Article’ functionality in the “Magazine News” theme:

1 – Any plans to include this in the “Remix” theme? Or, has anyone done this – would you care to share?
2 – Can you assign particular images / banners to individual posts? Or can only one be displayed at any one time?

With “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” checked off in the admin area, and you’re logged out on the front end, the sidebar doesn’t float right anymore, it ends up under the posts. I found this issue on versions 2.2/x and 2.3.x. Anyone else run into this?

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brad, loggin to your theme and/or check it, then please try to logged out and check the single page so you can see the error we were referring to. i’d been through all files but can’t seem to find the error :/

It seems that your fabulous theme doesn’t work with the new WordPress 2.5. I am so sad… Are there any plans to make the theme compatible? It would be a shame if it were to get lost in the upgrade shuffle.

Maggie, what issues have you encountered with WP 2.5? I just installed it along with Modicus Remix and am just about to publish my first post on my new blog. The only thing I’ve noticed so far is that the Preview Post function doesn’t work.Brad, I really like the theme. Looking to get a compatible version as well with the new WP install.

Hi,
Im getting this error on the page. Does anyone know what is causing this?Fatal error: Call to undefined function: akst_share_link() in /mnt/w0706/d34/s26/b02783b1/www/adamsback.com/wp-content/themes/modicus-remix/index.php on line 7

hey people with the akst_share_link() problem, i think that’s because you didn’t install the required plugin. put a conditional in there if you don’t want to use it (i guess the theme could have done a function_exists()…

Hey i love the theme, well done sir and thank you kindly for putting it out there. I have but one question, is there a way by default to keep the large picture header or do I need to go in and edit the html and put it in myself.?
Thanks again.

Kerry: You would need to go in and add it yourself into the header, or wherever else. When I was using them on the first versions of artculture, I setup different category pages, so I could use different header graphics on different categories.

Thanks for the tip. I know this is a stupid question, but how do I add an argument? Do I simply copy depth=1 where “title_li=” used to be? If so, this seems to break the nav and display extra characters like “Page” above the nav.

Yes, you have to add the “depth=1″ argument to where “title_li=” is. If you want to preserve the title of the nav that says “Pages” then put it instead the “title_li=”, however, if you want to get rid of it, then your whole thing will look like this: “wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1′)”
Hope this helps

Well the first thing I want to say is wow… Ive been looking over your site for over an hour now and you are very Very talented… Im something of an amatuer designer myself and have been thinking about starting to design a few themes… I wonder if you can give me a little advice… Where do you get the color ideas from… I know the above theme was a kind of a different approach to an existing theme but what about when you start from scratch? I used to use a tool at this color chart website but it seems they have taken it down… do you have any color scheme tools that you use or do you start from scratch off the top oif your head? thanks

its possible use a logo, black stripes and then a header banner, just like the picture preview of modicus remix?

i want to use a logo, but also i want a header banner, but i dont want to loose the black stripes, if you see the artculture logo in this modicus remix, its on the header but also have a tiny part floating in the right corner, how do you that?

im not good coding in css or php, if i modify the css stripelines i can use a banner, but i don’t want to lose it, but also want the logo and the headstripes

Hej Brad,
thank you for the modicus remix theme!
I’m using it at http://www.emergencyhousing.se and it runs really nicely and looks great. I havent modified it at all, might do some minor minor changes (putting sponsor logos from sidebar to underneath footer) but really like it. What I might have to change is our blogg/company logo to meet up with the standard…
This is my first wordpress experience and I truely enjoy it, used to work without publishing tool at my former sites… heavy…
May i make a wich for a premium theme? A visual, portfolio-like theme to display designwork easily. And a webshop to go with it -but I assume thats another story?
Part from my work at the emergency housing project I run a company with family and friends, http://www.chen-karlsson.com. Our site rally needs an upgrade. We would love to run it under wordpress, so we just wait for a suitable theme from you;) Anyone in development that would be suitable youthink?
Keep up the good work!
Johan

Hello,
I am using the Modicus Remix Theme for my website, http://www.cafemimosasc.com. I am trying to add a custom header, which I have created in Illustrator. I can’t quite figure out how to edit the html code to add an image. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you,
Ali